The Delta independent., 1887-06-21
Should Flirts be Encouraged?

Should Flirts be Encouraged?
Henrietta sends this startling in
terogatory home 10 this office, inscrib-
ed on a Scotch-plaid sheet of fancy
stationery. enclosed in No. 8 fligree-
ornamented envelope with cup d sit
ting on the safets-vaive of q fractured
heart, and we have no doubt that she i'm
agines her question to be crusher. But,
though staggering somewhat under the
weight of the conundrum, we hurl back
our answer:
Yes, by all means flirting should be
encouraged"
We had a young friend once whom
we thought everything Of and he fell q
victim to the wiles of tlirt. He was
n blonde, and she was blonde. in a
kingdom by the sea-Baltimore, for in
stance-and the terrible love stroke
which prostrated him left him, to all
intents and purposes, mangled. bat
tered wreck on stormy sea of trouble.
He thought all the world of the blonde,
and would sit up all night and spin
stories about her, and extol her fasci-
nations, and talk about her eyes, and
lie about her hair, and drivel on con-
cerning rosy lips, pearly teeth, match
less form, etc. long after the balmy
goddess of slumber has wooed lis 10 re-
pose and attuned our mel odio"s olfac-
tory organs TO the music of the spheres.
Our friend used to beat his landlady
out of board bills, and borrow money
to buy opera tickets for his girl and
taffy on stick for her little brother. 1t
was the most compete mash we ever
saw, Henrietta, and we have seen quite
a large number of this description; but.
compared 10 this pyrotechnic display,
they were are all tame aud sccond-class
affairs. Well, to make love story in
terestingly short. she bounced him one
evening, and the jig was up. She jlt-
ed. sacked, m; ;ttened and fred him out
of her affections, with all the Kissing
velocity of an old shoe brush thrown at
a wailing cat. When he came in that
night to 60 10 bed. he looked like
stricken deer. a wounded fawn wrestl-
ing with sciatica. For five long weeks he
raved in delirium. Then he recovered
shook the dust of Baltimore from his
heel taps. jumped his board and doc
tors bills. and aimlessly wandered to
Leadville. carrying with him our best
suit of clothes, six pairs of cotton socks
and a tooth brush.
Well. he was grub-staked by philan-
thropist, struck it rich, opened min
er's supply store, married the daughter
of n bonanza king. has two blue-eyed
children and loving wife. The
blonde female bursted up all the heart
furniture she came in contact with, re-
fused about til rty-five splendid offers,
and retired from tho bus,n She
doesn' draw well now. She is faded
and pdssee. She wanes and wobbles
on the down grade. 1t does us BUSH
ell of god to see her grit her teeth
when the fellows, like the Pharisees,
pass by on the other side and give her
a wide berth. She is elected-to stay
at home, and bids fair to make as
v!negarry an old spinster as you will
find in days walk.
Yes. on the whole flirting should be
encouraged. 1t certainly saved our
young Leadville friend from II fate
almost too horrible to mention. And
whenever we gee a young man strug-
Cling in the gill-net of well-con-
structcd. athletic flirt, we fell like say
ing:
STEADY, old boy; you will feel all
the better when you get out. '-Tezas
SJtings.
A ParalvZad Farmer.